Albert J Lindberg Airport
5Y1 · Hessel, Michigan · Mackinac County · map
Albert J Lindberg Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles north of Hessel, Michigan, 760 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,700 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5Y1
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 760 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Lake Huron sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,700 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 187 ft, road 15 ft high 258 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 45 ft high 676 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Hessel from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Hessel, Michigan: 1 piston single. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Michigan.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR operations only.
- Activate PAPI runway 09 and 27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Maximum heil, asst amgr.
- Faded.
- Faded.
- Approach ratio 17:1 to dthr.
- Deer, birds, and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.